Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transformation from a windy but amiable young donkey into an expert instrument of hatred remains awesome even in a world where it has happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving into the crazy settings for a hideous fairy tale. Freya finds a prince charming in her friend Martin (James Stewart), a fairy godmother in his gentle old peasant mother (Maria Ouspenskaya). But when the time comes for a white charger, all prince and godmother can furnish is a pair of skis...
...black-turbaned, black-hearted Chinese Moslem named Tung Fu-hsiang, assisting in the barbaric anti-foreign Boxer attacks at Peking, eased himself with hideous satisfaction into a brand-new chair. It was upholstered with the still fresh skin of Baron Klemens von Ketteler, the murdered German Minister...
...Archbishop of Canterbury assure them that "it cannot be the will of God that a rule of brute force . . . should prevail on the earth." Catholic Cardinal Hinsley's more vitriolic sermon at Westminster Cathedral, proclaiming that "there cannot be peace until by God's aid this hideous system [Hitlerism] vanishes from the world," was interrupted by a middle-aged woman quoting Scripture: "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it. . . ." She was hustled...
...taking part in a battle to keep America from a hideous expenditure of resources and men which she imperatively needs to make this hemisphere inviolable. You are trying to keep her from a desperate gamble with her democracy, a gamble in which the cards are inevitably stacked against her if she intervenes in Europe, and in which she has some chance of winning if she turns her energy to the betterment of her own part of the world. The latter is the real desideratum. That--and that alone--is worth fighting...
...must expect that as soon as stability is reached on the Western Front the bulk of that hideous apparatus of aggression . . . will be turned upon us. ... We are ready to face...